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Thai Pongal, a harvest festival, is being celebrated today by Hindus in Sri Lanka and other parts of the world. Yesterday, people were seen buying the sacred Thulasi plants, sugar cane and other traditional items for the festival. Pic by Amila Gamage

Huge Korea-backed project for 1m tons of LNG a year

New passport with biometric data in microchip

Major investment to upgrade railway system

Quarrel with squatters: Tight security around Russian embassy

Airport touting a punishable offence

Election officials check backgrounds of local council candidates

Kalubowila Hospital & J’pura University on world map

Not interested in becoming SriLankan Chairman: Thilan

Road constructed over damaged drainage system has residents fuming

CEB-PUCSL dispute overshadows potential power crisis

Bond Commission report online after Parliament receives it on Wednesday

Non-declaration of assets: Fine to be upped to Rs. 25,000

3000 people affectedby strong winds in Divulapitiya

India’s lost fisherfolk

Face-stinging cold in town where everyone goes to chill

CEB-PUCSL dispute overshadows potential power crisis

SAITM issue: Harsha explains three-party MOU to be made public next week

President going to SC over term: UNP largely silent, JHU says nothing wrong, JVP hits out

Don’t subvert people’s will, says AG

More than 1,000 bike riders speed to their deaths

From Jaffna to the world and back again

Govt fails on promised concessions: Polythene industrialists

Distraught retired doctor seeks recourse to RTI to know the truth about his doctor son’s death

Crawling Kelaniya flyover overhaul can’t set the record straight

Don’t frighten leopards out of existence

People gutted by war, drought speak out

Pick of the Pix

Sri Lanka signs MBT; a mine-free country within four years

Youth take to dolphin watching

Unscheduled, offtrack coal carriers rip nets, claim fishermen

Nuwara Eliya could face drinking water problems: DS